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Sinkie ah neh (PR from Mudlaysian) got shot in JB, but insist he got no enemies

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Man didn't realise he had been shot twice

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Mr Raman and his wife, Ms Pathmavathi, at the hospital yesterday. He underwent a four-hour operation to remove both bullets from his leg on Tuesday.
By Rennie Whang
The New Paper
Sunday, Nov 25, 2012

SINGAPORE - The bullets came from her side of the car window, pierced the glass and narrowly missed her. But her husband, who was in the driver's seat of the year-old Singapore-registered BMW 523i, wasn't as lucky.


Both bullets hit his right leg, but he didn't know it. It was only after he got out of the car that he realised he had been shot.

There were holes in his trousers where the bullets had struck and the fabric was wet with blood that ran into his shoes.

A worried Ms Pathmavathi, 52, told The New Paper on Thursday: "The shots came in from my side. I don't know if they were targeting my husband, or me, or both of us.

"There were two bullets. Is it one for me and one for him?"

The kindergarten principal and director at her husband's firm said she instinctively shifted her neck back upon seeing the hole in the window and the gunman. If she had not done so, "maybe I could have been hit".

The attack happened on Tuesday in Taman Molek, Johor Baru, at about 12.30pm. The place is a 20-minute drive from the Causeway.

Ms Pathmavathi's husband, Mr Raman Othayanan, 56, a Malaysian with Singapore permanent residency, said that he saw the back view of his assailant, who rode off on a motorcycle.

"I should have shouted at him to catch him. I couldn't because of the pain," said the CEO and managing director of engineering firm NDT Hitech Inspection Services.

Speaking from KPJ Johor Specialist Hospital where he is warded, Mr Raman said he was at courier company SkyNet in Taman Molek.

He had gone there to collect a package sent to his JB house when nobody was in.

He thought it could have been documents, but it turned out to be a diary from insurance company AIA Group and he put it in his back seat.

He was just starting the car when he heard his wife, seated next to him, scream: "Somebody's shooting!"

His wife said that when she heard the first gunshot, she thought a potential robber had hurled a stone at the car.

She turned left to see a hole in her passenger seat window. She also saw a helmet-clad man standing beside the car and pointing a gun.

She began screaming just as the second shot rang out, she said.

The gunman then walked calmly back to his motorcycle, which was parked about 3m behind their car.

She could not see his face, but saw that he was wearing a brown motorcycle jacket and blue jeans and was calm enough to adjust his shirt a little before riding off.

Mr Raman said he got out of the car upon hearing his wife's screams.

Unaware he was shot

"What's happening?" he recalled asking before the pain hit.

Both bullets were lodged inside his leg, one on the inside of his calf and another in his thigh. The leg swelled and he could feel the bullet through his skin, he said.

His pants were torn where the bullets had hit.

Aside from a hole at the calf, there was a roughly 15cm-long split in the fabric along his thigh.

"Somebody shot my leg," he recalled saying as he slowly lowered himself to the ground. About 50 people from the surrounding shops came round to ask if he was all right. One offered him a cup of water.

"I wanted to lie down, the pain was increasing," he said.

Ms Pathmavathi said she was crying then.

She had been on the phone with her eldest of three daughters, Republic Polytechnic student Prithi, 24, when the gunman struck.

She called her daughter back, saying: "Come, father's got shot. Come and help father."

Miss Prithi, who was in Singapore at the time, said she called her other two sisters, aged 21 and 17, for help. Both are students in JB.

One of their friends arrived at the scene about 20 minutes later and drove the couple to the hospital in the BMW.

Mr Raman lay in the back seat, his head on his wife's lap.

The front passenger seat window was mostly shattered due to the attack, but small shards of glass kept falling.

Mr Raman said he had to cover his eyes to stop the glass from getting in. Both he and his wife still have scars on their arms from falling glass.

He arrived at the hospital at about 2pm and had an X-ray. He then went through an operation from 4pm to 8pm to remove both bullets, he said.

Mr Raman said he does not know who was behind the attack.

The police have visited him and asked who his enemy was. "I have none," he said.

Mr Raman has a twin brother who runs a transport agency, but Mr Raman said the attack could not have been meant for him.

He added that he suspects it is someone from Singapore because he does not know many people in JB.

"I must be extra careful from here. I'll still do business here, but might make a police report in Singapore."

Mr Raman, who was born in Perak, moved to Singapore in 1978 and started the company. He has been a Singapore PR for about 20 years. He has a home in Singapore, but he lives mostly in JB.

He spends two to three hours in his JB office each morning, before spending about five hours in the Singapore office, he said.

After the attack, staff at the JB office in Taman Desa Jaya - a five-minute walk from that SkyNet outlet - told him that a motorcyclist had been circling the office that morning, he said.

"But it's a light industrial area and many people come and go," he said, adding he did not see anybody tail his car.

Miss Prithi added the family would cooperate with the police and analyse how it could have happened. "It's not an easy task to find the culprit and we are clueless," she said. The JB police said they are investigating.




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I really don't understand how the bullet can be fired from the passenger's side, but end up kenna his right thigh....

Did the gun man fire the same magic bullets used to assassinate JFK? :confused:
 
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